Improvement in children s table-trays



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Patented Feb. 6,1872.

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WALTER M. conenn, oF

NEWARK, N E'W JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS TABLE-TRAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,332, dated February6, 1872.

Spec'nication describing certain improvements in Ghildrens Table-Trays,invented by WALTER M. OONGER, of Newark, in the county of Essex andState of New Jersey.

Table-trays of sheet metal adapted to fit on the edge of the table, andturned down to overhang the edge and turned up at the other sides, havebecome a staple and important article of manufacture. One plan has beenpatented wherein the edges are turned up on all sides and legs solderedon to hang down over the edge of the table, but the legs are liable tobecome bent or broken.

I have, after much reflection and experiment, arrived at a form whichcan be manufactured with facility in one piece, and which has a frontridge as wide and smoothly rounded as may be desired, with a hanging lipat the front, extending down to the desired depth, formed in one piecetherewith.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure l is a central vertical section, and Fig. 2 is aplan View of myimproved tray complete. Figs. 3 and 4 represent one form ofthespring-clips, which I prefer as fasteners. Fig. 3 is a View before beingbent, and Fig. 4a perspective view after being bent.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the gures.

The drawing represents what I consider the best means of carrying outthe invention.

A is a sheet of metal, and I will designate by A, A2, Sac., the severalportions which are turned upward and downward in the process ofmanufacture. The back is turned upward, as indicated by A1. The twosides are turned upward, as indicated by A2 A3. The front is turnedupward to about half the height of the back and sides, as indicated byA4 5 it thence bends forward, presenting a broad and smoothly-roundedbead or broad ridge, which is a strong form of the metal, and welladapted to receive the pressure of the childs breast or naked arms; itthence extends downward, forming a deep vertical lip, and extends aconsiderable distance below the bottom A of the main body of the tray,as indicated by A5. The upper and lower edges are finished by foldingthe edges of the metal over upon a wire with ordinary tinners7 tools orotherwise.

The iinished tra decorated in any d y is japanned, and may be esiredstyle.

the bent-up side lips A2 and A2.

I esteem it important, in practice, that the edge-wire B shall extenddown from the upper to the lower edge, and guard the otherwise sharpedges of the metal where the transition occurs from the bent-up to thebent-down condition. It is so represented, and this feature may beintroduced without further instructions to the tinsmith.

I esteem it also important that the cutting' of the metal shall be soadapted to the dies that the bending up of the ascending front lip A4shall `just close with and `join tightly to Solder may be applied alongthese lines to strengthen the union, if desired 5 but I believe theedging-wire B, extending along close to the edge, will sufficientlystrengthen it.

My tray may be used-with some success in the condition just describedwithout the addition of spring-clips 5 but the addition, as shown,constitutes an important improvement.

Fig. 5 shows the spring-clips made from separate pieces of wire 5' theseseparate wires are stuck in close-tting sockets, soldered on the outsideof the lips A2 A3, and allow of being turned out of the way when not inuse.

I claim as my inventionl. The within-described table-tray in one piece,having the front edge turned upward,

as indicated by A4, and then downward, as iny dicated by A5, and adaptedto serve as herein set forth.

2. In combination with the waiter or tabletray, constructed as abovedescribed, the edging-wire B, inclosed within the metal at the top ofthe lips A1 A2 A3, and at the bottom of the front hanging lip A5, andextending along close to the raw edges in the interval between, as andfor the purposes specied.

3. The turning-clips C C, in combination with the table-tray, andadapted to retain the same against displacement in any direction, and tobe turned around or folded out of the way when not in use, as hereinspecied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

WALTER M. GONGER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS D. STETsoN, C. G. Lrvnves.

